From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jun 30 11:28:04 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F8C3663E6 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:28:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from per@hedeland.org) Received: from mailout.easydns.com (mailout.easydns.com [64.68.202.10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49x2Cl4hm8z4HMn for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:28:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from per@hedeland.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailout.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E26A1665 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:28:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout.easydns.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (emo13-pco.easydns.vpn [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58p4--pCWsIy for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:28:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hedeland.org (81-228-157-209-no289.tbcn.telia.com [81.228.157.209]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailout.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B03DA1388 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:28:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pluto.hedeland.org (pluto.hedeland.org [10.1.1.5]) by tellus.hedeland.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 05UBRwO0047021 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:28:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from per@hedeland.org) Subject: Re: Shell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20200630104317.812dce86b2dc5ea5a42a1ee1@sohara.org> From: Per Hedeland Message-ID: Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:27:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200630104317.812dce86b2dc5ea5a42a1ee1@sohara.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49x2Cl4hm8z4HMn X-Spamd-Bar: ++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of per@hedeland.org has no SPF policy when checking 64.68.202.10) smtp.mailfrom=per@hedeland.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [2.05 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[81.228.157.209:received]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.21)[0.210]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.49)[0.490]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[hedeland.org]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.55)[0.549]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:16686, ipnet:64.68.200.0/22, country:CA]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW(-0.10)[64.68.202.10:from] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:28:04 -0000 On 2020-06-30 11:43, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:44:34 +0530 > Manish Jain wrote: > >> It is often unnoticed that FreeBSD has a mirror of the root user >> appropriately named toor (whose shell can be anything). > > Traditionally root ran /bin/csh and toor ran /bin/sh to keep both > BSD and AT&T trained sysadmins happy, it really doesn't matter what login > shell root uses at work we use zsh, at home I use bash but you could even > use mc or vshnu. > > However the OP was concerned about the prompt (which many people > have correctly said involves setting PS1) rather than the shell. Yes, PS1 is what to set for /bin/sh and its relatives (e.g. bash, zsh), but it has no effect for csh/tcsh - there you need to set 'prompt' (and the "formatting sequences" are also different). And it seems the OP was primarily interested in root's prompt (i.e. csh by default). --Per